Kanye West might be a college dropout, but, judging by this video Kim Kardashian posted of a young Yeezus reading a poem he wrote about Martin Luther King, Jr., he was a future Rhodes Scholar in the making back in middle school.

In the grainy YouTube video, a barely teenaged, shirt and tie-wearing Yeezy steps to the podium in front of an assembly to recite some impassioned poetry about pastor-turned-leader in the struggle for African-American civil rights.

“My name is Kanye West, and my poem is 'His Name Is Love,'" Li'l Kanye says before busting out the same delivery that would later make him a world-famous rapper.